For advocates of a NASA authorization bill, the refrain is once again the same as fans of a losing sports team: Wait ’till next year.
In the final hours of the 115th Congress Dec. 9, the Senate passed by unani...

Canada will develop a new space strategy, revamping its long-term goals with a focus on advanced technology that can contribute to growing the country’s economy.
A new space advisory board will also be establi...

The LEO smallsat gold rush has Japan’s largest GEO fleet operator looking to fill Asia’s ground-station void with a little help from Norway
Sky Perfect JSAT has been telling investors all year it is looking fo...

With companies planning to send thousands of small satellites into orbit in the next decade, the launch industry faces enormous rewards, but also significant challenges.
Launch providers will only succeed if t...

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Buley with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18 adjusts a radio terminal’s trajectory during a September exercise at AndersenAir Force Base in Guam. The military is currently we...

An avalanche of commercial spacecraft are bound for orbit. Will they need commercial data-relay networks to keep in touch? These firms think so.
Ralph Ewig was coordinating communications for SpaceX Dragon ca...

Guiulio Ranzo. Credit: Eric VandevilleThe recent German-Italian agreement to divide production of casings for the future Ariane 6 rocket’s strap-on boosters, which also serve as the first stage of the Ital...

Long before Spaceport America took shape in the desert of southern New Mexico, Daniel Hicks was thinking about a spaceport there.Daniel Hicks. Credit: Spaceport America“About 16 years ago, I started th...

SpaceX won a NASA contract Nov. 22 to launch an Earth science satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.
The award, with a total cost to NASA of $112 million, is for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean ...

A principal in a venture capital fund whose investments include SpaceX has joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the Department of Defense.Trae Stephens. Credit: Founders fund ...

The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named a congressional staffer and former NASA official to lead the “landing team” overseeing transition planning for the space agency.Chris Sh...